Rajeev Pentyala – Technical Blog on Power Platform, Azure and AI

In my previous article [Step by Step] Configure and run pipelines in Power Platform, I covered how to deploy a solution from Development to Target environments using pipelines.

In this article, I will cover how to deploy Power Pages Websites from the Development to Target environments using pipelines.

Scenario:

• In my Development environment, named Developer Dev, I have a website called ‘Hello World’

• I need to deploy the Hello World website to my Test environment using Pipelines.

Prerequisites:

To move the Hello World website from Developer Dev environment to Test environment, both the Developer Dev and Test environments need to be switched to Enhanced Data Model.

• To switch to Enhanced Data Model, Open Power Platform admin center, select the Developer Dev environment, go to Resources > Power Pages sites.
• Turn on the Switch to enhanced data model

• Repeat this step for Test environment.

Once you enable the Enhanced Data Model, you can proceed with pipeline configuration.

Add Power Pages website to solution:

As a first step, in the Developer Dev environment, add the Hello World website to a Dataverse solution as shown below.

• Connect to Power Pages Portal.
• Go to Solutions and create a new Solution.

• Open the solution and add the Hello World website using Add existing > Sites

Configure the Pipeline:

• To configure a Pipeline, please refer my previous article [Step by Step] Configure and run pipelines in Power Platform, I covered how to deploy a simple Dataverse solution from Development to Target environments using pipelines.

Run the Pipeline:

• Once you have the Pipeline, run the Pipeline by opening Solution > Pipelines 🚀.
• In the Pipeline select the Deployment Stage > 🚀Deploy here
• Finally click Deploy to start the deployment.

• After successful pipeline run you will see the deployment details like Last deployed.

Validate the deployed site on Target:

As our pipeline ran successfully, let’s validate the deployment by going to Power Pages Portal and selecting Test environment.

• By default deployed Website will be in inactive state and available under Inactive sites

• Click on Reactivate and provide new website url.

• That’s how you deploy websites from development environments to target environments using Pipelines in Power Platform

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